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The Nickel Boys

by Colson Whithead

This book is fictionalized narrative based on the Dozier School for Boys in Florida that operated for over half a century that was allowed to rape, mutilate, and torture boys just because they could. Operated under the guise of a reformatory school in the the panhandle it will force again a discussion of race and the horrors of hate and racism. No amount of reparations paid will erase the horrors and pain of this place where hope and opportunity went to die. Historical amnesia and denials to the contrary cannot erase the images contained in this book. Haunting and unrelenting in its truth, you can try to look away, but you must finish it.